HONG KONG – There were few fireworks at the inaugural evening sale of 20th and 21st century art at Christie’s new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the economic malaise that has cast a pall over the art market in the past two years continues to make itself felt.
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HONG KONG – There were few fireworks at the inaugural evening sale of 20th and 21st century art at Christie’s new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the economic malaise that has cast a pall over the art market in the past two years continues to make itself felt.
The closely watched sale, led by auctioneers Adrien Meyer and Georgina Hilton, began at 7pm on the 7th floor of The Henderson, the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed tower in the city’s Central business district.
The auction house controlled by French billionaire Francois Pinault has taken up the four lowest floors of the curvilinear glass tower.
The high-profile expansion will see Christie’s holding year-round auctions in its own venue instead of being limited to two weeks of marquee sales each spring and autumn at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.
Les canots amarres (1887)…